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You couldn’t make it up… Not content with insulting me over their loan offers recently (see previous blogs), my bank has now compounded the insult by mailshotting me with an offer to take out an insta...
I'd like to welcome Dirk Kinvig to the community. Dirk started yesterday on the Finextra web team as senior developer and will be rolling out all manner of exciting new developments to the site over ...
The Handelsbanken announcement is most welcome. It's interesting how some ideas keep being revisited. I remember, a number of years ago, being involved in a feasibility study for a UK bank that want...
The US Department of Justice has taken a breather from chasing the bad guys to go phishing. According to the AP, the department sent out an e-mail to its own staff purporting to be from the "Thri...
Yesterday's announcement from Thomson Reuters about their partnerships with Cisco's Jabber XCP, IBM Lotus' Sametime and Microsoft's LCS/OCS can only be termed exciting. The hub connection solution is ...
Amongst all the snowfall and avalanche of layoffs and closures, I found a real intriguing nugget of a news item. The Executive Director of UNODC claims in an interview that some banks have been 'kept ...
It looks as though the looming changes in the law surrounding equality couldn’t come at a better time. The UK is now ranked 13th in the global league table of gender equality. Although out of 130 coun...
I can see a tendency of much wider use of IM than emails among the youngsters. It can be Windows Messenger, ICQ or Skype, but the Generation Y reach for it much sooner than opening an email program. ...
It was almost a year ago that I called upon governments to get together and develop a plan for the crisis. They met but did nothing. Lights on at the Reserve Bank and no-one home, or at least nobody w...
Yes it's snowed. And yes no buses or trains were running this morning as London ground to a halt prompting the usual complaints about how unprepared we are. I can work from anywhere so I wasn't partic...
The EC has long looked enviously at the commoditised cost of the settlement of securities transactions in North America. The cost model in the fragmented European industry compares very unfavourably w...
It's not often that I find myself in agreement with Peter Mandelson the UK Government Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform but this economic crisis is producing many stran...